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2021 Was The Year of The Ruby Desktop!!!
Gerald Bauer started 2021 with a reddit post having the following question in its title: “2021 - The Year of the Ruby Desktop?” [more inside]
FRS - automation script for spin-uping Ruby developer environment
Configure your developer stuff on Linux Ubuntu in minutes 🚀 Focus on development, not on developer tools! https://github.com/RubyWorkout/frs
Rubber Duck Dev Show Episode 28 | Exploring the Jamstack
Hear two rubyists explore the uses of the Jamstack: https://www.rubberduckdevshow.com/episodes/28-exploring-jamstack/
How to Deal With and Eliminate Flaky Tests
https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deal-with-and-eliminate-flaky-tests Flaky tests are pretty common in the software industry. But they only become a serious problem when we’re not proactive about fixing them.
Ruby Regex : a friendly tutorial
Ruby regexes are not so easy to grab. We tried to make this little tutorial as simple as possible. [more inside]
[screencast] Function in Ruby
Hello all, I have made a screencast about functions in Ruby, one may watch it here https://youtu.be/uvcGlgEovP0
Glimmer DSL for LibUI Wins Fukuoka Ruby 2022 Special Award
I am very happy to announce that Glimmer DSL for LibUI (Ruby Desktop Development GUI Library) has been judged directly by Matz (creator of Ruby) and the 2022 Fukuoka Ruby Award Competition Judges and have won a Fukuoka Ruby 2022 Special Award! [more inside]
fake_io 0.1.0 released
fake_io 0.1.0 has been released. FakeIO is a module that can be included into any Class in order to create IO-like objects. FakeIO emulates buffered IO, while delegating the raw reads/writes to the io_read/io_write methods. FakeIO can be used to create IO-like wrapper objects around non-IO network data sources (ex: RPC, WebSockets, etc). FakeIO supports all Ruby 2.x and 3.x IO methods.
Automatic RubyGems Multi-Factor Authentication with Gemsmith
Hey all. 👋 Gemsmith 16.0.0 has been released and also completely rewritten on top of Rubysmith which brings a lot of modern convenience to building and maintaining your Ruby gems. Included in this release is the ability to automatically authenticate to RubyGems using Multi-Factor Authentication as long as your YubiKey is plugged into your machine. The linked article will walk you through how all of this works and how you leverage this functionality to speed up your own development workflow. 🚀
[screencast] Ranges in Ruby
Published a screencast about Ranges in Ruby, one could watch it here: https://youtu.be/aUdsaCUkL7g
First stable version of 📤 smtp_mock has been released 🚀
💎 Ruby SMTP mock. Mimic any 📤 SMTP server behaviour for your test environment with fake SMTP server: https://github.com/mocktools/ruby-smtp-mock
Dependency Injection in Ruby from Zero to Hero (Part 1)
Dependency Injection is an extremely useful programming technique and can be easily implemented in Ruby! But comes with own cost. Mastering it is an important skill to leverage the power of Hanami applications! dry-container is one way to help you with it! [more inside]
Sidekiq, Rails : full tutorial
Sidekiq allows Rails to launch any task in the background. Let’s see how, from zero to production. [more inside]
The Builder Pattern (video)
The Builder pattern allows you to hide the configuration of complex objects in a separate class. It makes sense to use it when you feel like the creation of an object has become too complex, and you’re repeating the process in a few different places. Or, when you need to create an object with different possible configuration options. [more inside]
Glimmer DSL for GTK Tetris + Cairo Tutorial Inspired by Mohit Sindhwani
Mohit, thank you for writing such a great introductory RCairo tutorial. My tutorial takes it further by showing software engineers how to build those same Cairo graphics into a desktop GUI application (as opposed to just plain images). [more inside]
Released nokogiri-ext 0.1.0
Released nokogiri-ext 0.1.0. nokogiri-ext is a collection of useful extensions to the nokogiri gem.
Rubber Duck Dev Show Episode 27 | Refactoring in the Wild
Hear two rubyists discuss how to get started refactoring your code: https://www.rubberduckdevshow.com/episodes/27-refactoring-in-the-wild/
Milliseconds in Ruby
3 cases where you could meet milliseconds in Ruby. [more inside]